This is cool and thanks for sharing. When you have made the first $1B from your freeware, please keep us in mind :)
> On Feb 16, 2018, at 7:49 AM, Seamus Brady <corvid...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi all > > At the risk of self promotion I have decided to share my modest Racket > success story with the list and say thanks :) > Hopefully it might provide a small bit of inspiration. > I have a small open source WordPress development environment tool called > InstantWP (a quick search will find it). > It is used by beginners to learn WordPress - it is a wrapper around QEMU with > a small Alpine Linux installation. > The backend is written in Perl but the GUI is written in Racket. > I searched for nearly a year for a suitable graphics toolkit and settled on > Racket above multiple commercial and open source alternatives. > The GUI library is rock solid and has given me no trouble. > This version of the software has been downloaded nearly 40,000 times across > the world from Japan to France. > I have had zero issues with the GUI across all those Windows and macOS > machines. None. > > I am not the world's greatest Racket programmer and the GUI on InstantWP is > quite simple, but even so, I can highly recommend using Racket for a > commercial product. > The tooling is great, the libraries are rock solid and the community and > language are fun and helpful. > > So thanks to everyone behind Racket! And if anyone is thinking of using > Racket for desktop software - go for it. > In my opinion, Racket probably has one of the best GUI toolkits out there at > the moment. > > Regards > > Seamus > > > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Racket Users" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to racket-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Racket Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to racket-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
